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Cyclists in Bilston (West Midlands Police).jpgVideo: Police appeal after driver mounts pavement to hit cyclist in Bilston
West Midlands Police has released CCTV footage of the moments leading up to a collision in which a driver mounted the pavement to hit a cyclist in Bilston before leaving the scene. The victim was left with multiple skull fractures and other serious injuries, from which he continues to recover.
The incident occurred on St Chad’s Road at around 10.50pm on November 9.
In a post on Facebook, the force said that a 20-year-old man was cycling along the footpath with a friend, when the driver of a dark coloured car mounted the pavement and knocked him off his bike.
Police believe that the force of the impact may mean that the car sustained front end damage to the bumper and windscreen, which could have been repaired.
If you have information, call 101 and ask for the Complex Crime Team at Wolverhampton or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
In October we reported that West Midlands Police were attempting to trace a Birmingham motorist after he allegedly chased a cyclist before mounting a kerb and hitting him.
The mother of the 17-year-old victim believes he only survived being run over because he was on boggy grass at the time and not the road.
Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.
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- ktache 50 min 9 sec ago
The small frame, the aggressive posture, lots of standover height.
- mctrials23 1 hour 45 min ago
As i've said before, the police should be sued for a lot of money when someone they have knowingly ignored has gone on to commit a serious crime....
- David9694 1 hour 53 min ago
'Bad parking' blocks firefighters multiple times on same emergency call-out...
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Cambridgeshire boy, 13, crashes Audi into garden wall after taking it from home...
- Adam Sutton 2 hours 43 min ago
Good stuff. Now do it on cycleway C9 through Hammersmith to Chiswick.
- mark1a 2 hours 52 min ago
It's technically allowed but it's not known as "London's Orbital Car Park" for nothing.
- Dogless 4 hours 26 sec ago
You're defending bombing hospitals and refugee camps and starving children.
- mattw 6 hours 40 min ago
Used car salesman is a complete attention-seeking plank....
- tubasti 6 hours 57 min ago
I don't know if they're any better, but they's certainly become more boring.
- FionaJJ 7 hours 23 min ago
At risk of being cynical, and stereotyping the police, it's so they don't have to leave the comfort of their panda cars and pursue on foot when...
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At least we can use this footage to campaign against mandatory hi-viz.
What a massive amount of assumptions there on here based on very little information.
You assume people don't know more than the article gave.....
Plus this is a “comments” section, not “further investigations/information”. Fridays in particular are for posting rampant speculation and general WAG-ing on company time.
That could be read as "wives and girlfriends-ing" on company time, which is a somewhat different message to the one I think you were trying to send!
Looks probably like some drug dealer on drug dealer action to me. That's him taught about 'respect'.
The Daily Mail will love this. They can run a click-bait piece about how ALL drivers are homicidal-pavement-mounting-pyschos...
Nah - they'll run a piece on how two lycra-louts were riding on the pavement.
I think your sarcasm detector needs re-calibration.
Agree with the earlier comment - looks like a planned assault; the victim’s riding was incidental.
...until a public-spirited motorist, who also happens to be a keen cyclist himself, thought he could not pass up an opportunity do his civic duty by putting an immediate stop to this wanton flouting of pavement cycling laws and make them safe for local grannies out and about on their zimmer frames...
kids being exploited by drug related gangs - then it goes wrong - maybe not but a good chance
Looks like the driver had malicious intent from the way they sped into view, and the poor lads saw him coming and tried to get out of the way.
There's surely some back story to this...
Doesn't matter what they have done you don't mount the pavement to run someone down.
Looks like a targeted attack with previous. They no doubt did something to this person or pissed them off in someway. These are lads on bikes, not "cyclists", still out of order.
Whats the difference between a cyclist (i.e a person riding a bike) and a "cyclist"?
What are you on about? Of course they are cyclists. Anyone on a bike is a cyclist, by definition. What distinction are you making and why?
This site has a lot of "it means what I say it means" going on in relation to the word "cyclist". I've never quite got to the bottom of it myself, either.
they may have been on the pavement when hit, but they were clearly riding on the road itself as the driver approached.